08/12/2009

Flag 2.0: BarackObama.com Asks for Local Astroturfers

I am ashamed of our Dear Reader. I am starting to think he and his people are two-faced (not to be confused with the image of him as The Joker.) For all the spin against taxpayers who dare demand answers and dare demand that the government control its seemingly insatiable appetite, it is beginning to appear that the lib leadership is organizing against us! Gasp! I know it is hard to believe, but even I, who cherishes every word our president reads and views every elected official as beyond reproach simply because they are elected, am starting to waiver.

I could not believe when I opened my AOL e-mail and found a message from two days ago which asked me to sign up to "visit Rep. John Shimkus's office in Centralia this week." Wait, I thought that it was bad to organize movements! How can it be that our god-like leader of the once-free world can be asking this of me? Why would he do what seems so at odds with what his people are saying? I am so confused!

Here is the message. Maybe you can help me understand why this is acceptable, but taxpayers showing up to voice opposition is not:

Friend --

All throughout August, our members of Congress are back in town.
Insurance companies and partisan attack groups are stirring up fear
with false rumors about the President's plan, and it's extremely
important that folks like you speak up now.

So we've cooked up an easy, powerful way for you to make a big impression: Office Visits for Health Reform.

All this week, OFA members like you will be stopping by local
congressional offices to show our support for insurance reform. You can
have a quick conversation with the local staff, tell your personal
story, or even just drop off a customized flyer and say that reform
matters to you.

We'll provide everything you need: the address, phone number, and open
hours for the office, information about how the health care crisis
affects your state for you to drop off (with the option of adding your
personal story), and a step-by-step guide for your visit.

According to our records, you live near Rep. John Shimkus's office in Centralia, IL.

As you've probably seen in the news, special interest attack groups are
stirring up partisan mobs with lies about health reform, and it's
getting ugly. Across the country, members of Congress who support
reform are being shouted down, physically assaulted, hung in effigy,
and receiving death threats. We can't let extremists hijack this
debate, or confuse Congress about where the people stand.

Office Visits for Health Reform are our chance to show that the vast
majority of American voters know that the cost of inaction is too high
to bear, and strongly support passing health reform in 2009.

Don't worry if you've never done anything like this before. The
congressional staff is there to listen, and your opinion as a
constituent matters a lot. And if you bring a friend, you'll have more
fun and make an even greater impact.

Wherever you live, these visits matter: Many representatives are
pushing hard toward reform, and they are taking a lot of heat from
special interests. They deserve our thanks and need our support to
continue the fight. But those who are still putting insurance companies
and partisan point-scoring ahead of their constituents must know that
voters are watching -- and that we expect better.

Earlier this
week, the President wrote that "this is the moment our movement was
built for" and asked us all to commit to join at least one event this
month. This is the way to answer that call, and rise to the challenge
of this moment together.

Thank you for going the extra mile when it matters the most,

Mitch

Mitch Stewart Director Organizing for America

Paid
for by Organizing for America, a project of the Democratic National
Committee -- 430 South Capitol Street SE, Washington, D.C. 20003. This
communication is not authorized by any candidate or candidate's
committee.

Is it just as simple as "Barry good/Freedom bad"? Is that whythese calls to action are justifiable while those on the behalf of freedom are not? I won't be able to get to Centralia, but I do appreciate the reminder that I should thank John Shimkus for his solid representation of CD 19 here in Blue State (or area in which a "moderate" must be nominated in order to out Dem the Dems) U.S.A. I am so appreciative of John Shimkus' representation that I am going to thank him and I won't even mention my disappointment in his support of Mark Kirk (RINO - CD 10).

It is sort of sick that the purveyors of political putrescence who send these messages mention physical assaults when it is their loyal SEIU thugs who do the assaulting and do it on behalf of Don Obama and the Liberallini Family of D.C.

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Flag 2.0: BarackObama.com Asks for Local Astroturfers

I am ashamed of our Dear Reader. I am starting to think he and his people are two-faced (not to be confused with the image of him as The Joker.) For all the spin against taxpayers who dare demand answers and dare demand that the government control its seemingly insatiable appetite, it is beginning to appear that the lib leadership is organizing against us! Gasp! I know it is hard to believe, but even I, who cherishes every word our president reads and views every elected official as beyond reproach simply because they are elected, am starting to waiver.

I could not believe when I opened my AOL e-mail and found a message from two days ago which asked me to sign up to "visit Rep. John Shimkus's office in Centralia this week." Wait, I thought that it was bad to organize movements! How can it be that our god-like leader of the once-free world can be asking this of me? Why would he do what seems so at odds with what his people are saying? I am so confused!

Here is the message. Maybe you can help me understand why this is acceptable, but taxpayers showing up to voice opposition is not: